If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
quote by George Santayana
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
quote by Wallace Stevens
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
quote by Alexander Smith
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Scarlatti
last night
locked in
the castle
of pride and
egotism
goes on two
legs
Webern
orchestrated a
sky the clouds
move to a
bass
on
an instrument not
an oboe, gray
on light-gray in
blue and green
goes by
on glass
Schoenberg
serenades with
a view through
to where
a girl
swings
her
body displaced
against the
pull of her
hands head-
high on the
ropes
night
before the night
before last
unlocked the castle
of pride and
egotism
bliss
clouds stand
and go by
poem by James Marcus Schuyler
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Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
quote by George V. Higgins
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The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
quote by Charles de Gaulle
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It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
quote by John Steinbeck
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Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
quote by Barbara Stanwyck
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Mastery passes often for egotism.
quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
quote by Ambrose Bierce
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
quote by Thomas Carlyle
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
quote by William James
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Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
quote by Bellamy Brooks
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
quote by Robert Frost
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The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
quote by Harold S. Geneen
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